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October 14, 2008

Speaking for Themselves:
The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill
by Paul Addison

A Book Review
(Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of The Churchills in USA), edited by Mary Soames, London and Boston 1999, 702 pages, illustrated.

In the fifty-six years of their married life Winston and Clementine Churchill were often apart. Winston was never content for long unless he was off in search of action and adventure, but Clementine too was affected by wanderlust. Sometimes it was she who set off for distant parts, leaving Winston at home. In 1935 she sailed away for a three-month cruise to the Far East aboard Rosaura, a yacht belonging to Lord Moyne. VE-Day found her in Moscow at the end of a tour of the Soviet Union. Whenever they were separated, Winston and Clemmie exchanged long letters, supplemented by occasional notes and telegrams.  Hence this remarkable edition of 800 exchanges out of some 2000 written between them, w

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Winston Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert dies

Following Churchill's death in 1965, and with approval from Randolph, Sir Martin wrote his first book on the former prime minister, a single-volume entitled Winston Churchill that was released in 1966.

After Randolph Churchill died in 1968, Sir Martin was asked to take over his work to complete the Churchill biography, including the main and document volumes.

He would end up publishing numerous volumes of Churchill's biography over the next 20 years.

But it was his book The Holocaust, rather than his writings on Churchill, that generated "by far the most correspondence and contact with individuals whom I would never otherwise have met", Sir Martin said.

This gave him material and ideas he would incorporate into subsequent Holocaust-related books, he said.

Following his death, numerous tributes have been paid to Sir Martin, who was an honorary fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a distinguished fello

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MY EARLY LIFE

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Title: My Early Life. A Roving Commission.
Author: Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer] (1874-1965)
Illustrator: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)
Photographer: Elliott and Fry
Illustrator: Woodville, Richard Caton [Jr.] (1856-1927)
Date of first publication: October 1930
Edition used as base for this ebook: London: Tho